Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 10, 1881 Page: 2 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
p
TIE CHEYENNE TRANSPORTER
rUMLISIIliD 8EMI MONTHLY
In llie Interest of Indian ClYlllzatlon and Progress.
TERMS $100 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
John W. Robinson the tallest man
in Alabama is six feet seven and a hall'
inches high.
The railway companies of Great
Britain and Irehuid give employment
to 5.00000 persons.
Including the garrisons Berlin has
a population of 1118030 which is
double that of 18G0.
The history written by Jeff. Davis
entitled the "Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate Government" is soon to be is-
sued by the Appletons.
Miis. Maggie Embry of Elkton
Ky. lately deceased left $200000 in
Louisville and Nashville railroad stock
to Vanderbilt university Nashville.
A redwood log cabin said to have
been built by Fremont's party in 1845
is still in good preservation near the
Mark "West springs in Sonoma county
Cal.
In New York during 1880 there
wereol288 deaths 27013 births 8-
8G3 marriages showing an increase of
3337 deaths 1938 births and 498 marriages.
New York has made the largest ab-
solute increase of population of any
state in the Union during the past ten
years Kansas the next Missouri fourth'
Iowa fifth Arkansas sixth.
Since the beginning of the season
4875000 hogs have been packed at
western points. It is estimated that
the number will bo increased to 7000-
000 before the 1st of March.
Col. C. G. If ammond proposes to
give $20000 to the Chicago Congrega-
tional seminary provided $00000 addi-
tional is raised before May 1882. lie
has alreaiy given the seminary $40000.
f.
There are 43000 postoflices in the
country and the employes of the post-
oflice department alone foot up 00479
persons. Last year the postoflice ex-
penditures exceeded the receipts by
13500000.
S. B. Buggles in his book on
American resources says that there
are 400000000 acres of land north
and west of the Ohio river on which
4800000000 bushels of wheat will be
grown annually.
Edward Bichardson of New Or.
leans is called there the "cotton king'
of America. Ho is said to bo worth
$15000000. Ho owns ten or twelve
cotton plantations on which from fif-
teen thousand bales of cotton are grown
each year.
The bulk of tho emigration to this
country is now from Germany if tho
? comers from Canada may be excepted.
For tho flvo months ending Nov. 30
the arrivals were moro than a quarter
of a million 70000 of whom came from
tho Dominion G455G from Germany
29081 from England and 2G951 from
Ireland.
War kills its thousands but a Cough
its tens of thousands; Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup however always kills a
.CfiugJjMPiioen!f 25 cents a bottle
The Age of the Earth
UcnUcinjin'H Mngiulno.
As soon as our earth ceased to be in-
candescent and became covered mi large
part by water it commenced its deposi-
tions of submarine sediments. The
oldest known sedimentary rocks com-
prising the laurentian and huronian
systems of Canada havea total average
thickness which cannot certainly be es-
timated at anything less than 30000
feet. Sir William Egan indeed the
greatest authority upon these primeval
formations considered the measurable
thickness of this upper and lower lau-
rentian alone to amount respectively to
20000 and 10000 feet while he set
down the huronian system as reaching
some 18000 more. But as doubts have
been raised whether tiie huronian
series are not really the metamorphosed
representatives of the upper lauren-
tian we will omit them altogether
from our calculation so as to avoid any
possible cause of offense. The great
cambrian system the next in order of
time has a thickness which has been
fairly estimated at from 25000 to 30-
000 feet. "We will adopt the smaller
figure. The Silurian is pretty certainly
known to number G000 feet. The old
red sandstone with its doubful con-
temporary the devonian cannot be put
down for less than 10000. The car-
boniferous series amounts to at
least 12000 feet the coal measures
alone sometimes attaining to fully that
thickness. Thus tho whole primary
group including the so-called azoic
rocks has a total vertical extent of not
less than 83000 feet. By the side of
these enormous thicknesses we can
only allow 10000 feet for the whole of
the secondary formation from the per-
mian to tho chalk inclusive while we
shall be generous it' we assign 1000
feet to the little group of the tertiary
and post-tertiary deposits. This gives
us a total thickness for the whole geo-
logical series of 94000 feet. Let us
allow 6000 more for the breaks be-
tween each of these main divisions or
tho unrepresented strata and we4uwe
tho round number 100000.
A tabular statement will make these
relations clear and will allow us to
translate our own thickness into con-
jectural but relatively ascertained dates.
Feet. Years.
Lauren tian 30000 30000000
Cambrian 2f000 25000000
Silurian 0000 (5000000
8eyonianll(lSt0e I 10'000 10000000
Carboniferous 12000 12000000
Secondary 10000 10000000
Tertiary and Post-Tertiary 1000 1000000
Gaps and unrepresented
strata 0000 (5000000
100000 100000000
The Power of Song.
In one of the hospitals of Edinburgh
lay a wounded Scottish soldier. The
surgeons had done all they could for
him. Jfe had been told that he must
die. He had a contempt for death and
prided himself on his fearlessness in
facing it.
A rough and wicked life with none
but evil associates had blunted his sen-
sibilities and made profanity and scorn
his second nature. To hear him speak
one would think he had no piously-nu-tured
childhood to remember and' that
ho had never looked upon religion but
to despise it. But it was not so.
A noble and gentle-hearted man came
to see the dying soldier. He addressed
him with kind inquiries talked to him
tenderly of tho life beyond death and
offered spiritual counsel. But the sick
man paid no attention or respect. He
bluntly told him that he did not want
any religious conversation.
"You will let mo pray with you
will you not?" said tho man at length.
"No; I know how to die without the
hell) of religion." And ho turned his
face to the wall.
Further conversation could do no
goQjl and tho man did not attempt it.
But he was not discouraged. After a
moment's silence he began to sing the
old hymn so familiar and so dear to
every congregation in Scotland:
"O mother dear Jerusalem
When shall I come to thee'.'"
He had a pleasant voice and tho
words and melody were sweet and
touching as lie sung them. Pretty
soon the soldier tinned his face again.
But the hardened expression was all
gone.
"Who taught you that?" he asked
when the hymn was done.
"My mother."
"So did mine 1 learned it of her
when 1 was a child and I used to sing
it with her." And there were tears in
the man's eyes.
Tho ice was thawed away. It was
easy to talk with him now. The words
of Jesus entered in where the hym had
opened the door. "Weeping and with a
hungry heart he listened to the Chris-
tian's thoughts of death and in his last
moments to his mother's Gotland the
sinner's Friend.
Man.
The average weight of an adult man
is 140 pounds 6 ounces.
The average weight of a skeleton is
about 14 pounds.
Number of bones 240.
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height of the living man.
The average weight of the brain of
a man is 3 J pounds; of a woman 2
pounds 11 ounces.
The brain of a man exceeds twice
that of any other animal.
The average height of an English-
man is 5 feet 9 inches; of a French-
man 5 feet 4 inches; and of a Belgian
5feet 6?f inches.
The average weight of an English-
man is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman
136 pounds; and of a Belgian 140
pounds.
The average number of teeth is 32.
A man breathes about 20 times in a
minute or 1200 times in an hour.
. A man breathes about 18 pints of air
in a minute or upwards of 7 hogsheads
in a day.
A man gives off 4.0S per cent car-
bonic gas of the air he respires; res-
pires 10GGG cubic feet of carbonic acid
gas in twenty-four hours; consumes
10667 cubic feet of oxygen in twenty-
four hours equal to 125 cubic inches
of common air.
A man annually contributes to veg.
ctation 124 pounds of carbon.
The average of the pulse in infancy
is 120 per minute; in manhood 80; at
60 years 60. The pulse of females is
more frequent than that of males.
The weight of the circulating blood
is about twenty-eight pounds.
The heave beats seventy-five times in
a minute; sends nearly ten pounds of
blood through the veins and arteries
each beat; makes four beats while we
breathe once.
540 pounds or one hogshead one and
one-quarter pints of blood pass through
the heart in one hour.
12000 pounds or twenty-four hogs-
heads four gallons or 10782$ pints
pass through the heart in twenty-four
horn's.
Geneva and Its Watches.
Geneva like other cities has its spe-
cialties and its first and greatest says a
correspondent is its manufacture of
watches. The Geneva watch has at-
tained a world-wide celebrity and
though probably no better than those
of American manufacture they are
wonderfully fascinating and it is difii-
cult to withstand the attractions of
their show-windows. Their exhibition
of ladies' watches is especially fine and
their prices vary from $20 to as high
as you care to go and you are sure to
get a good article if you pay for one.
Another specialty is music boxes of
which large quantities are sold every
year. There are several establishments
hero which deal in them exclusively
and they put them up in all sorts of
shapes. There are musical chairs
which surprise you by playing a tune
when you sit down on them musical
foot stools goblets and trinkets of
various kinds ranging in price from $5
to $2000 and even '"higher. Geneva
has almost a monopoly of these estab-
lishments for save one at Berne I
have not noticed any elsewhere.
Thomas O. Thompson Esq. the May-
or's Secretary who some few days ago
slipped on a banana peel and sprained
his knee writes that St. Jacob's Oil
acted like a charm." Cft-Scoro Tribune.
FARM NOfES.
Calves in winter need good food but-
ter than yearlings.
In purchasing bulbs buy mixed vari-
eties of the hardy sorts.
Never breed from a vicious sire:
temper is hereditary in animals as well
as in man.
The presence of the red spider in a
hot house is an indication that the air
is too dry.
Pure milk condensed to one-third
will remain sweet from five to ten days
in warm weather.
I)o not allow the cold winds of win-
ter to blow through holes and crevices
upon the farm stock.
It is said that 26000000 bushels of
the present year's wheat crop will be-
exported in the form of flour.
The Massachusetts Ploughman asks
if oxen have not been abandoned for
horses too much in doing farm work.
Add a little wood ashes to the flower
pots of favorites and see how quickly
it will nourish and improve the growth.
The old adage which says lime ap-
plied to the land will enrich the father
but impoverish the son contains much
truth.
To purify a sink or drain: Dissolve-one-half
pound copperas in two gallons
of water. Pour in half this liquid one
day and the other half the next.
Water is a much better deodorizer
than is generally supposed. It has
great absorbing capacity. Fresh water
running through a milk room keeps it
free from odors.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
writes to that journal that he has
raised three heads of cabbage on one
stalk by pinching off the first one
which appeared.
The National Live Stock Journal
thinks that wildness and bad temper in
a mare may be remedied by breeding
them and cites several instances where
this has succeeded.
The peanut crop of Virginia Tenn-
essee and North Carolina this year is
over two million bushels worth about
$2000000. Peanut shells are largely
used to adulterate ground coffee.
A Maine farmer who has been
very successfull in cultivating the blue-
berry says his best success has been
on dry uplands and he has always
transplanted his bushes from where he
found them.
Filling a horse rack with hay as
some persons do and permitting a con-
stant supply is one ef the most proba-
ble means of producing disease and
the most positive to render animals
unfit for fast work.
Keep your hens in a comfortable
house feed them well giving them
warm feed once a day; mix in a little
cayenne peper once or twice a week
and if your hens are not more than two-
years old you will get plenty of eggs.
A surgeon in the German army calls
the attention of all who have to do with
horses to the danger of using the-
pocket handkerchief to wipe away any
foam from the mouth of a horse which
may have been thrown upon their
clothes. Glanders have been commu-
nicated in that way.
Anxious to Rise.
There's plenty of room up stairs ns-
Daniel "Webster said to the young law-
yer anxious to rise but despondent of
his chance to do so; but no one need in-
jure himself either in climbing the
stairs of fame or those of his own
nouso or business place. The. follow-
ing is to tho point: Mr. John A.
Hutchinson Supt. Downer's Kerosene
Oil Works Boston Mass. writes: Mr.
Patton one of our foremen in walk-
n walking upstairs last week sprained
his leg badly. I gave him a bottle of
St. Jacob's oil to try. Housed it and
an almost instantaneous cure was ef
fected. La Fayette Dally Journal.
Father is Getting Well
My daughters say "Jlow much better
father is since he used Bop Bitters." Ho
is getting well after his long suffering
from a disease declared incurable and we
are so glad that he used your Bitters. A
tady of Rochester N. Y.-Vtlca ItcnUd.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Eaton, W. A. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 10, 1881, newspaper, February 10, 1881; Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70507/m1/2/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.